I
hope that by now you’ve read the two entries from the short story. There are lots of words that are misspelled, yet somehow you do
understand what they mean. What’s wrong with them? What helps you make out what
they mean?
Who’s
Charlie?
What
does he do?
Why
do you think it’s important for him to write down what has happened to him
since the medical team chose him?
Who’s
Miss Kinnian?
What
is the Rorshach Test good for?
Why
is Charlie carrying a rabbit’s foot and a lucky penny in his pocket? Why
shouldn’t he be scared of black cats crossing him when going to hospital?
What
is Charlie’s motivation?
Is
Algernon just an ordinary mouse?
Watch
the videos. Cinema is, of course, a different art from writing, so it must use
other means to suggest description of characters and succession of events. Why is Charlie hanging around
the university campus?
CHARLY (I)
CHARLY (I)
Sometimes the story is very sad because unfortunately nowadays there are still people who like deriding person like Charlie.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to laugh at a person who can't defend him/herself.
Charlie is 37 years old but is a man without cleverness and the same candour of a child, his one "blame" to be a mentally retarded person, nevertheless he usually attends Miss Kinnian's lesson.
Charlie is obstinated and keen: he's conscious about his disease but he would like to be smarter for going to the University and also, to become smarter than Algernon.
According to Miss Kinnian, Charlie holds desire to know new things and his ambition could develop his potential with Dr. Strauss assistance. So, Charlie becomes a human guinea for the doctor. Dr. Strauss would operate Charlie as he has done for a little mouse called Algernon transforming him in smarter mice.
Charlie is very happy and excited for this opportunity. During the tests (to resolve a labyrinth), a rabbit's foot and a lucky penny are his lucky charm and he tries several times to beat Algernon.
A part of studies with Miss. Kinnian, Charlie has a job in a bakery: those that he considers like friends, actually they laugh at him behind his back for his stupidity.
Maybe, it makes feel better them and also, smarter!!!
Not bad at all, Gianna. Although not all the questions have been answered, you did a good job.
DeleteI wish someone else went on completing Charlie's portrait, and try adding (in terms of the film's changes) more information about the second and the last question.
And, of course, what a Rorschach test is!